Directions for replicating Flynn and Fordham's "Economic Interests and Threat Assessment in the U.S. Congress, 1890–1914"

Notes:

1. The "Replication Files" folder contains all data and code required to replicate our analyses.
2. "Flynn Fordham II Replication Data Main Models" provides data for the primary analysis of threat assessment.
3. "Flynn Fordham II Replication Data Election Model" Includes replication data for the Republican election models we use as robustness checks.
4. Two files entitled "Republican Figures" and Replication Tables" will reproduce the models from the main paper and the figures we use in the main paper.
5. Additional shape files are included to replicate the map figure.
6. When replicating the map figure, note that the code will stop at the "spmap" command. Simply highlight the spmap code down to get the filing running again. This is some sort of bug with Stata.
7. The only figure that cannot be replicated in the replication do file is the bivariate comparison, which we made in Excel. This figure can be found in the "Manufacturing Sector Size and Evaluation by State" file. 